Insights and Stories on Freight

Ontario MDS volunteers already moving hay west

Sep. 14, 2021 at 7:28 pm CDT

It’s in the spirit of co-operation in difficult times that a group of Ontario farmers have launched a hay donation program to assist their Saskatchewan counterparts. Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada, a volunteer organization that provides assistance in the aftermath of disasters in Canada and the U.S., is organizing the […]

CP CEO rules out raising Kansas City Southern bid

Apr. 21, 2021 at 9:01 pm CDT

By Reuters

Argentine truckers end strike, freeing China-bound barley

Feb. 9, 2021 at 8:02 pm CST

By Hugh Bronstein Maximilian Heath

Federal work/rest rules to be updated for railway workers

Dec. 9, 2020 at 3:07 am CST

By Dave Bedard

Trump-backed Canadian railway to Alaska faces high hurdles

Sep. 28, 2020 at 6:01 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel Timothy Gardner

Fuel, labour to pull grain freight cost indices lower

May. 7, 2020 at 4:30 am CDT

The numbers that decide how much revenue Canada’s big two railways get to keep from Prairie grain handling have been marked downward for the 2020-21 crop year. The Canadian Transportation Agency last week announced it will set the volume-related composite price index (VRCPI) at 1.4202 for Canadian National Railway (CN) […]

By Dave Bedard

CN faces grain export backlog of 10,000 carloads, CEO says

Mar. 3, 2020 at 5:42 pm CST

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian National Railway (CN) lost capacity equivalent to 10,000 carloads, or one million tonnes of grain exports, in February due to rail blockades by protesters opposed to a pipeline project, CEO Jean-Jacques Ruest said Tuesday. Activists disrupted passenger and freight traffic last month to show solidarity […]

By Allison Lampert

Protestors put up new rail, road barricades in wake of arrests

Feb. 25, 2020 at 12:56 pm CST

Ottawa/Toronto | Reuters — Protesters in Canada blocked train lines, Vancouver’s port entrance and at least one highway on Tuesday in response to the arrest of 10 indigenous activists when police dismantled a rail barricade in southern Ontario a day earlier. Ontario Provincial Police on Monday arrested some of the […]

By Denise Paglinawan Steve Scherer

Passenger trains to run again, pipeline protests block freight

Feb. 18, 2020 at 1:20 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Passenger rail operator Via Rail said Tuesday it would soon resume partial services between Quebec City and Ottawa while the government sought to end anti-pipeline protests that are blocking rail freight in Eastern Canada. Via said passenger services between the two cities would start on Thursday […]

By David Ljunggren

Feed weekly outlook: Rally likely to end soon

Jan. 30, 2020 at 5:32 pm CST

MarketsFarm — After a bit of a rally for feed grain prices over the last three to four weeks, the feedlots are on the full side, said Brandon Motz of CorNine Commodities at Lacombe, Alta. “That normally means we back off a little bit,” he said, noting there hasn’t been […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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